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family but the kennedy who showed up most often on the new president's call sheet was jackie. this conversation took place ten days after the assassination. >> i just wanted you to know that you are loved by so many and so much. let's take a walk. let's walk around the back yard. let me tell you how much you mean to all of us. >> schieffer: johnson offered similar words of comfort to the american people in a thanksgiving address he called upon the country to honor kennedy through forward process. >> all of us have lived through seven days that none of us will ever forget. we're not given the divine wisdom to answer why this has been. but we are given the human duty of determining what is to be. >> schieffer: the kennedy family's well being still weighed heavily on the president's mind. he called jackie just before christmas. >> schieffer: last sunday 50 years later his daughter, lucy baines johnson recalled for us her father's relationship with the kennedy family. >> there's extraordinary letter that is in the library from mrs. kennedy to my father. it speaks about other peopl
family but the kennedy who showed up most often on the new president's call sheet was jackie. this conversation took place ten days after the assassination. >> i just wanted you to know that you are loved by so many and so much. let's take a walk. let's walk around the back yard. let me tell you how much you mean to all of us. >> schieffer: johnson offered similar words of comfort to the american people in a thanksgiving address he called upon the country to honor kennedy through...
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>> i have been absolutely fascinated by jackie kennedy. >> i didn't think it was possible to write a biography about her that would be news worthy. because th at the time i tried o do it there was 43 books written on her. i infe interviewed a lot of peoe close to the family and close to mrs. onassis which she was at the time i wrote it. i believe writing an unauthorized biography. unauthorized does not mean untrue. it means you are doing it without the subject's cooperation or approval. would you like to do one with the subject's cooperation? >> no. >> really. >> because you give up editorial control. , if you arso if you are writint jacqueline kennedy onassis, of course i wouldn't be able to talk about the president's womanizing or the things that really affected their marriage. primarily not so much the womanizing, although she go not know about it and she tolerated. >> it was the awful health problems that dogged jfk for so much of his life. i don't think anybody realizes all of the sicknesses and the botched surgeries and the awful diagnosises that he had. and that really was a b
>> i have been absolutely fascinated by jackie kennedy. >> i didn't think it was possible to write a biography about her that would be news worthy. because th at the time i tried o do it there was 43 books written on her. i infe interviewed a lot of peoe close to the family and close to mrs. onassis which she was at the time i wrote it. i believe writing an unauthorized biography. unauthorized does not mean untrue. it means you are doing it without the subject's cooperation or...
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if john kennedy in particular and jackie kennedy as first lady had not been the first lady in the 1960s -- the executive office building next to the white house would have been torn down, which white eisenhower was willing to do. he thought that this was an eyesore. part of the white house would be torn down. >> dolley madison -- the white house was lit up -- >> it would have been replaced by federal office buildings of the time -- a penitentiary and a prison yard. this really helped the historic preservation -- >> in the book you quote aldrich >> this was her schoolmate at miss porter's school. >> she wrote that mrs. kennedy designed her mission of first lady along the following lines. do you remember this? >> preservation of family, entertaining with style and grace in the number one house in the world, the makeover of the white house itself and the raising of the cultural stature of this country. >> wasn't that amazing that she wrote that before going into the white house. she already had a firm sense -- family and children first. everyone would hope that would be the case but she al
if john kennedy in particular and jackie kennedy as first lady had not been the first lady in the 1960s -- the executive office building next to the white house would have been torn down, which white eisenhower was willing to do. he thought that this was an eyesore. part of the white house would be torn down. >> dolley madison -- the white house was lit up -- >> it would have been replaced by federal office buildings of the time -- a penitentiary and a prison yard. this really...
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most people think of jackie kennedy as the person who did that. it is her entertaining in the white house. with the depression and world war ii ii and the truman renovation of the white house meant that they could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of return for political favor for the gift. that was made illegal. >> presidents still get lots of gifts. >> they usually go to the state department or the national archives. through the archives, they often turn up at presidential libraries. they are not owned by the president or first lady. >> one statement that the president and first lady can make is by who they did not invite. one person they did not invite was joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited to tea and receptions. she did not attend. >> what is a significance of that? >> she was making a political st
most people think of jackie kennedy as the person who did that. it is her entertaining in the white house. with the depression and world war ii ii and the truman renovation of the white house meant that they could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of...
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and even different from jackie kennedy. jackie herself participated a little bit in policy discussions with the president. >> did pat start any fashion trends or white house traditions? a video of pat nixon's personal style while she was in the white house. let's watch that next. >> mrs. nixon wasn't a real clothes horse per se, but she loved looking trim and clean. she loved spare design. she loved wearing the clothes designed for her. she would wear things off of the rack by geoffrey bean. it's cold. you don't see that here, but the coat is lined with fur, completely lined inside to keep her warm. so we're fortunate to have an inaugural gown at the library. usually the tradition is to give it to the smithsonian institution. for those who had the one term, that's where the gown goes. the second term, the presidential library will keep that second gown. and she wore this at the 1973 inaugural. this beaded dress and aqua marine was her favorite tone. she loved this. one thing she would ask for if her gowns were designed, she
and even different from jackie kennedy. jackie herself participated a little bit in policy discussions with the president. >> did pat start any fashion trends or white house traditions? a video of pat nixon's personal style while she was in the white house. let's watch that next. >> mrs. nixon wasn't a real clothes horse per se, but she loved looking trim and clean. she loved spare design. she loved wearing the clothes designed for her. she would wear things off of the rack by...
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that's what jackie kennedy was so sensitive to. when she did her famous tv tour of the white house, she said i'm trying to change the way the preside presidency is seen by the world. that's why i'm restoring the white house, why welcoming ceremonies on the grounds, "air force one" under eisenhower. she was so sensitive to the impact she could have if this was a ceremony that looked like lincoln's funeral, elevate jfk to the level of lincoln and replace those sordid images from dallas. >> sander, you referred to the fact it was john kennedy's third birthday. that image when he came down and you see now, showing the footage of jackie kennedy leaning down and suggesting to him that he salute his father as the coffin was passing. the back story to that, head of her secret service detail, she had asked the detail to teach him how to salute in advance of going to arlington for veterans day, which he did for his dad. he kept using his left hand inappropriately not the right-hand. it was during the funeral at st. chris matthews, sander, a
that's what jackie kennedy was so sensitive to. when she did her famous tv tour of the white house, she said i'm trying to change the way the preside presidency is seen by the world. that's why i'm restoring the white house, why welcoming ceremonies on the grounds, "air force one" under eisenhower. she was so sensitive to the impact she could have if this was a ceremony that looked like lincoln's funeral, elevate jfk to the level of lincoln and replace those sordid images from dallas....
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obama as a first lady is ferocious about the protection of her two children as was jackie kennedy. she too is too fashion plate and cares very, very much about clothes and how she looks, and the image she presents, as did jackie kennedy. president obama is as gifted as kennedy was intellectually, they were both fine orators, lots of teeth, lots of prettiness. >> you have covered so much. how do you decide who you want to write about? >> i only choose people who have really left a footprint on our landscape. i choose people who are very much alive, who have influenced our culture in some way, politically or socially, and have had ims men's power over us in that sense. -- immense power, over us in that sense. everyone i have chosen for a biography i have been i guess in awe of, a little bit, and have wanted to go behind the curtain of that public image to find out what they are really like. it was kennedy himself who said, the thing that makes biography so interesting and so fascinating the is the search to find out, what's he really like? >> going behind the curtain has made you fac
obama as a first lady is ferocious about the protection of her two children as was jackie kennedy. she too is too fashion plate and cares very, very much about clothes and how she looks, and the image she presents, as did jackie kennedy. president obama is as gifted as kennedy was intellectually, they were both fine orators, lots of teeth, lots of prettiness. >> you have covered so much. how do you decide who you want to write about? >> i only choose people who have really left a...
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jackie kennedy did not come back obviously. did she have any of the former first ladies back at the white house and was she the oldest, longest living former first lady? >> the longest living was bess truman. a very close tie. bess truman made it to 95 and she was 94. very close. the other question -- >> other first ladies come back? >> i do not remember who else was around to come back here and maybe eisenhower and truman. >> lou hoover? >> no. i know the johnsons went to the trumans in independence because that is where they signed the medicare act. they conferred with the eisenhowers about how to give the ranch to the nation, which eisenhowers had done with the gettysburg farm. i do not remember any luncheons with former first ladies. >> lyndon johnson gave lady bird a movie camera. there are many hours of family home movies now recorded and accessible to historians and other researchers at the lyndon johnson library. we will see one of those next from the 1941 special election. >> that suit went all over texas. a night rall
jackie kennedy did not come back obviously. did she have any of the former first ladies back at the white house and was she the oldest, longest living former first lady? >> the longest living was bess truman. a very close tie. bess truman made it to 95 and she was 94. very close. the other question -- >> other first ladies come back? >> i do not remember who else was around to come back here and maybe eisenhower and truman. >> lou hoover? >> no. i know the johnsons...
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. >> host: knowing what you know about jackie kennedy, john kennedy. if you had known that, would you vote for john kerry for president, again knowing what you know now? >> guest: knowing what i know now and knowing what i know now about richard nixon, yes, i would vote for john f. kennedy. not simply because my last name is kelley. that would not have been the reason. i would vote for john f. kennedy based on the speech he gave in june of 1963 when he talked about civil rights and he introduced civil rights legislation. i think that speech ennobled his presidency. and his presidency was flawed. the cuban missile crisis, the step up in vietnam. but what he said on civil rights to me was a shining moment. he taught about civil rights is a moral right, as something that's clear is the constitution and the soul of the scriptures. that night, after he gave that speech, his popularity went from 60% to 47% like that. ebbers was murdered that night. john f. kennedy went into the presidency as most presidents do, thinking foreign policy is going to be their bi
. >> host: knowing what you know about jackie kennedy, john kennedy. if you had known that, would you vote for john kerry for president, again knowing what you know now? >> guest: knowing what i know now and knowing what i know now about richard nixon, yes, i would vote for john f. kennedy. not simply because my last name is kelley. that would not have been the reason. i would vote for john f. kennedy based on the speech he gave in june of 1963 when he talked about civil rights and...
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and in the wrong out silence of the parkland emergency room after president johnson, jackie kennedy, and the casket had gone, doctors, both of them walked into this, room number one before it had been cleaned and in a wastebasket they found two dozen red roses given to the first lady at love field that morning and each removed a single rose and preserved his to this day. the eyewitness memories gathered in my book pain it previously unseen tapestries of this unforgettable time. some recollections are like the grainy black-and-white tv images of the day. while other memories are the graphic technicolor of surreal dreams. the chapters that follow detailed asides and feelings of our 45 authors and the shockwave first hit parkland hospital and then the world. the immediate actions and what they saw and felt are vividly remembered half a century from that fateful day. the narrative tone began with the whole world cried the day that i met jfk. >> thank you. [applause] [applause] >> dr. childs committee bring up a point about the neck wound that has been used in used in conspiracy theories
and in the wrong out silence of the parkland emergency room after president johnson, jackie kennedy, and the casket had gone, doctors, both of them walked into this, room number one before it had been cleaned and in a wastebasket they found two dozen red roses given to the first lady at love field that morning and each removed a single rose and preserved his to this day. the eyewitness memories gathered in my book pain it previously unseen tapestries of this unforgettable time. some...
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she seemed such an anomaly in a world of men, and even jackie onassis, jacqueline kennedy, looked down at her for being involved in politics, it was not lady-like, and certainly among first ladies of asia during that time, the idea of this woman with a gun and speak her mind regardless of what the men were saying, and even tell the president to shut up, was something really shocking, not just to asian but the world in a way, and yet there she was, sort of blabbering her ideas without any sense of inhibition. >> before madame nhu there was madame shanclek. she was well-opinion and had a feeling for what americans and americans were looking for in a first lady, and madame nhu didn't have that. i think madame nhu would have looked for her place in the world but there was no role model no shoes for her to step into. so she had to blunder her way through it, and the dynamic with the kennedy family and the nor family in saying gone is fascinating. two catholic families, family regimes, jfk and his family, and diem and his family, and then madame nhu, this first lady and jackie kennedy in the
she seemed such an anomaly in a world of men, and even jackie onassis, jacqueline kennedy, looked down at her for being involved in politics, it was not lady-like, and certainly among first ladies of asia during that time, the idea of this woman with a gun and speak her mind regardless of what the men were saying, and even tell the president to shut up, was something really shocking, not just to asian but the world in a way, and yet there she was, sort of blabbering her ideas without any sense...
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kennedy was. yes, i came out of "jackie oh!" with real respect for the woman. >> host: "nancy reagan: the unauthorized biography," being here you write the white house chief of staff would never admit it nor would the men around him, but the first lady control the presidency. it was nancy reagan not donald regan who ran things in ronald reagan's white house. it was she who dictated the president's schedule, supervise his speeches >> guest: i stand by that. she was busy, wasn't she? [laughter] she was a powerful first lady, powerful. petticoat president as they might call her. and i came away from that book having respect for her power. because she toned down ronald reagan. she helped push him with gorbachev. she was very good in that respect. yes, she was extraordinarily powerful people were terrorized of her. >> host: did you ever meet her? did she ever consoled -- and sent to an interview currently no. she never consented to an interview. as i said, none of the subjects have. but i did meet her very, very briefly when i went t
kennedy was. yes, i came out of "jackie oh!" with real respect for the woman. >> host: "nancy reagan: the unauthorized biography," being here you write the white house chief of staff would never admit it nor would the men around him, but the first lady control the presidency. it was nancy reagan not donald regan who ran things in ronald reagan's white house. it was she who dictated the president's schedule, supervise his speeches >> guest: i stand by that. she...
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we know jackie coined the term the week after president kennedy's assassination in the famous interview. but it's rose who has that kind of loyalty conflict going with the family and making them such a beautiful presence on the world stage in the american stage. she helped jackie had the material to work with it seems to me. i would call her perhaps the mother of camelot and jackie was the queen. >> host: when john kennedy was assassinated and not whole image system kind of came crashing down, how did she handle that? >> guest: anyone can imagine just how horrible that would eat to lose a child to that kind of violence. >> host: after losing show. >> guest: the apple of her eye, joe junior. cake has been taken in a plane crash in 1948. so rose is literally seen her children almost in earth order disappeared from the scene. not only that, but 1964, rose wrote in her journal, and this is unusual for her because she usually try to be positive and optimistic. this would've been in the summer of 64, just after his assassination. she writes about what it's like that summer and she says, gone
we know jackie coined the term the week after president kennedy's assassination in the famous interview. but it's rose who has that kind of loyalty conflict going with the family and making them such a beautiful presence on the world stage in the american stage. she helped jackie had the material to work with it seems to me. i would call her perhaps the mother of camelot and jackie was the queen. >> host: when john kennedy was assassinated and not whole image system kind of came crashing...
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bob schieffer talks with jackie kennedy's lead secret service agent in 1963. also congressman steny hoyer and kevin mccord -- and kevin mccarthy. the sunday network tv talk shows are on c-span radio. they are brought you -- brought to you as a public service. began -- begin at 1 p.m. today. listen to them all on c-span fm.o, 90.1 nnelm satellite radio cha 120. or listen online. think anyone would listen to a crystal ball and think a college campus would be streaming netflix onto an iphone to watch a movie. this is what is happening out there. we have this huge issue out there. you do not date your self, but i remember in northwest ohio, depending on the day, you got 2 channels. one day you might get one channel and some days you did not get any channels because it depended on the wind. the industry has changed so rapidly. i want to make sure we have things and laws on the books that spurred this innovation. about 3.8 million jobs on the cell phone side. technology issues in front of the current college on "the on c-span 2." rome --t you in the room and offer c
bob schieffer talks with jackie kennedy's lead secret service agent in 1963. also congressman steny hoyer and kevin mccord -- and kevin mccarthy. the sunday network tv talk shows are on c-span radio. they are brought you -- brought to you as a public service. began -- begin at 1 p.m. today. listen to them all on c-span fm.o, 90.1 nnelm satellite radio cha 120. or listen online. think anyone would listen to a crystal ball and think a college campus would be streaming netflix onto an iphone to...
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the casket was drawn by horses down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol building where jackie, caroline and john jr. were waiting. john jr. famously saluted his father. a symbolic force to st. matthew's cathedral where funeral services were held. president kennedy was buried in arlington national cemetery where an eternal flame burns apt his grave site. question, what is the legacy of the kennedy presidency? >> john was young, made for the television age. had a wonderful sense of humor. he was an inspirational figure. what sered the soul of america was us watching the horrible way he died. the race to the hospital. taken in the casket to washington, d.c. the whole funeral and shooting of oswald on that sunday. that impressed upon us what kennedy was. there would not have been a camelot had there not been dallas. after that, if you want to separate out the record of the man and the president, that's a different thing. that's moved away from what we are all calling memory. you can't see the films 50 years later without stirring up the emotions you felt. >> terrible weekend. >> secretary o
the casket was drawn by horses down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol building where jackie, caroline and john jr. were waiting. john jr. famously saluted his father. a symbolic force to st. matthew's cathedral where funeral services were held. president kennedy was buried in arlington national cemetery where an eternal flame burns apt his grave site. question, what is the legacy of the kennedy presidency? >> john was young, made for the television age. had a wonderful sense of humor. he...
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was drawn by horses down pennsylvania avenue from the capitol building to the white house where wife jackie and son john jr. was waiting. john jr. saluted his father in a heartbreaking moment. the family walks with a military escort. the funeral service was held at the cathedral. president kennedy was buried at the arlington cemetery where the eternal flame burns. question, what was the legacy of the kennedy presidency? pat buchanan? >> well john f. kennedy was young, charismatic, made for the television age. a wonderful sense of humor, an inspirational figure. i think what seared the soul of america for all of us watching the horrible way he die and the race to the hospital and taking the casket to washington dc and then the whole funeral and the shooting of oswald on that sunday, and what it did, i think, is that impressed upon us what kennedy was. there would not have been a camelot had there not been dallas. but after that, if you want to separate out the record of the man and the president, i think that's a different thing and that has moved somewhat away from what we all recall and re
was drawn by horses down pennsylvania avenue from the capitol building to the white house where wife jackie and son john jr. was waiting. john jr. saluted his father in a heartbreaking moment. the family walks with a military escort. the funeral service was held at the cathedral. president kennedy was buried at the arlington cemetery where the eternal flame burns. question, what was the legacy of the kennedy presidency? pat buchanan? >> well john f. kennedy was young, charismatic, made...